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profit

[prof-it] / ˈprɒf ɪt /




Usage

What are other ways to say profit? Profit refers to any valuable, useful, or helpful gain: to one’s intellectual profit. Advantage refers to anything that places one in an improved position, especially in coping with competition or difficulties: It is to one's advantage to have traveled widely. Benefit refers to anything that promotes the welfare or improves the state of a person or group: a benefit to society.

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Tesla didn’t produce consistent profit until it was making roughly 400,000 cars a year.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

That puts more pressure on device makers like Apple to either raise their own prices or take a hit on profit margins.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Standard & Poor’s, for example, waits until a stock has been publicly traded for at least a year and has turned a profit in four quarters, including the quarter prior to its addition.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

The company also narrowed its full-fiscal year profit guidance.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

The hours lost in forming lines and walking back and forth between the factory and Płaszów could be better spent producing goods and making a profit.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson




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